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Old 10-26-2024, 09:34 AM   #439
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Originally Posted by Edward64 View Post
Sorry, I don't understand your point? Can you give an example?

When you break down how visas are issued by categories, about 70% of the visa issued by the US is family based. Using sports terms, the caps for employment(21%), diversity(8%), others(1%) are pretty much hard caps, the family based categories are very very soft caps. In theory, that means that only 37.5% of visas issued by the US should be issued to spouses, children under 21 and parents of US citizens. In reality, US citizens have and have always had a Larry Bird exception in this category. There is no limit for us. The category for children 21 and over and siblings etc(33.5%) is a little bit harder but again this category have more leeway than say employment.

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Similar question to you: how would you handle the 158M+ adults that want to immigrate?

I will come back to this. I will say this is not an issue until we are honest about all the reasons people think it it is an issue.
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